The Eastern and Western Roman Empires had a layered history, experienced a major division, and left lasting cultural and ...

In that place, in A.D. 325, a united Church laid the doctrinal foundations for believers in every age to follow.

No wonder Catholic progress is measured in centuries not nanoseconds. Conclave was a popular movie with an odd ending that got audiences worldwide interested in this largely occult process. But an ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement on Monday. He was 88, and had survived a serious bout of double pneumonia.

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of an ancient deity. The Appian Way Regional Park announced the find on Facebook ...

While I was not baptized Roman Catholic, my parents raised me in a very Catholic way. My father was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Colombia, South America nearly 60 years ago.

Site of the former St. Monica Roman Catholic Church This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first openly Black priest.

Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope Francis, ... Complex debates are ongoing over the role of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics in the church, ...